Reply to post: Re: Huh?

Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA

Mark 85

Re: Huh?

The 737 is a very common plane and was probably easy to "borrow" one for the test. I would think that the fly-by-wire automations were turned off to allow the robot to do it's thing with human oversight. Or perhaps the on-board system was allowed to be active to compare notes, so to speak.

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